Farm and flood fence



(No Model.)

A. L. GOTTRBL.

FARM AND FLOOD FENCE.

No. 290,403. Patented Deo. 18, 188s. F

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NITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

AARON L. OOTTEEL, OE sIDNEY, OHIO.

FARM AND FLOOD FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 290,403, dated December 18, 1883.

Application filed June 13, 1883.

.To all whom t may concern..-

Be it known that I, AARON L. GOTTREL, a resident of Sidney, in the county of Shelby and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fences; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and eXact description of the same, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a front view of my improved fence. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a portion ofthe same. Fig. 3 is a side view of one of the posts. Fig. 4 is a similar view of one of the posts when tilted. Fig. 5 is a top view of one of the posts. Fig. 6 is a vertical sectional detail View of the lower portion of a post, and Fig. 7 is a perspective detail View of a slight modification.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

My invention has relation to fences adapted to be placed upon land subjected to floods, and to be tilted by the current out of the way of the same, being a so-called dood-fence, and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of the same, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, the letters A indicate the fence-posts, and B the wires, which are preferably secured to the posts in oblique notches in the same, the posts being iiat metallic bars. Thelower ends'of the posts are hinged upon bolts C, passing through two upright lips, D, of sockets E, and the edges at one end of the said lips are connected at their lower portion by a plate, F, which prevents Va. laterally-extending arm, K, twisted in a (No model.)

plane at right angles to the plane of the disk,

and a brace, L, is hinged to the outer end of this arm, which extends in the opposite direction to the partly-closed side of the socket, while the other end of the brace, which end is bent at a right angle to the brace, is inserted into a perforation, M, in the fencepost, the brace preventing the posts from tilt- Ing over.

It will be seen that the fence will stand when the braces are hooked into the posts; but when, in case of a flood, the braces are unhooked, the fence will be tilted by the force of the flood and be laid flat upon the ground, as shown in Fig. 4t. The posts are braced laterally at intervals by flat inclined braces N,

the lower ends of which are vhinged in sockets in a manner similar to the posts, and the wires are likewise secured to the braces in the same manner in which they are secured to the posts.

Vhen the fence is to be used in high land, where no floods can reach it, the sockets may be closed upon all sides, as shown in Fig. 7, when the braces may be dispensed with.

I am aware that it is not broadly new to construct fences in which the posts are hinged at their lower ends in sockets placed in the ground, and I do not wish to claim such construction, broadly; but

The combination of a socket open at one side and partly closed at the other, and having a reduced end, a iiat fence-post hinged in said socket, a laterally-projecting flat bar, forming a perforated disk at its 'inner end, and twisted in a plane at right angles to the said disk, a socketed block secured in the ground and receiving the reduced end of the socket, and a brace-rod hinged to the outer end of the laterally projecting arms, and hooked with its upper end into a perforation in the upper part ofthe fence-post, as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

AARON L. COTTREL. 

